David Widgery
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David Widgery (1947-1992) was a Marxist writer, journalist, physician, and activist. His written works include The Chatto Book of Dissent (1991), an anthology of dissident writings co-edited with Michael Rosen, Some Lives!: A Gp's East End (1991), the story of the horrors he encountered as a doctor on London's East End, The National Health: A Radical Perspective, and Beating Time (1986), an account of the Rock Against Racism movement of the late 1970s. One obituary described Widgery, who died in London at the age of 45, as "a radical humanist intellectual on permanent loan to revolutionary socialism."